The role of information systems (IS) as representations of real-world systems is changing in
an increasingly digitalized world, suggesting that conceptual modeling is losing its …

Two paradigms characterize much of the research in the Information Systems discipline:
behavioral science and design science. The behavioral-science paradigm seeks to develop …

Design research promotes understanding of advanced, cutting-edge information systems
through the construction and evaluation of these systems and their components. Since this …

Design in the sciences of the artificial is concerned with what might be, with “changing
existing situations into preferred ones”(Simon 1996, p. 130). As a multifaceted concept …

In order to identify and explore the strength and weaknesses of particular organizational
designs, a wide range of maturity models have been developed by both, practitioners and …

Theories of knowledge reuse posit two distinct processes: reuse for replication and reuse for
innovation. We identify another distinct process, reuse for customization. Reuse for …

This paper investigates how information systems design professionals use design principles
(extracted from a prior design science research project) in a new design situation. We do this …

This paper reports on the results of a study that investigates how design principles are used
in design practice. Design principles have become the predominant way to capture abstract …

Requirements elicitation is a central and critical activity in the systems analysis and design
process. This paper explores the nature of the challenges that confront analysts and their …

The extensive literature on reuse in software engineering has focused on technical and
organizational factors, largely ignoring cognitive characteristics of individual developers …